GNU bug report logs - #37628
Inconsistent display of help-echo between minibuffer and tooltips

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From: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Inconsistent display of help-echo between minibuffer and tooltips
Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2019 04:14:26 -0400

Hi all,

This is a follow-up https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-10/msg00090.html.

Help-echo strings are not displayed consistently by show_help_echo (in keyboard.c) and display-local-help (in help-at-pt.el): in tooltips, substitute-command-keys is called on the help-echo string before passing it to show-help-function, but help-at-pt doesn't perform any substitutions before calling the function.

To reproduce, (insert (propertize "test" 'help-echo "\\[forward-char]")), then press C-h . (which displays \[forward-char]) or hover over the inserted text with your mouse (which displays C-f).

Clément.

Message #10 received at 37628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>
To: Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com>, 
 37628 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#37628: Inconsistent display of help-echo between minibuffer
 and tooltips
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 05:38:54 -0700

close 37628 28.1
thanks

Clément Pit-Claudel <cpitclaudel <at> gmail.com> writes:

> This is a follow-up https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2019-10/msg00090.html.
>
> Help-echo strings are not displayed consistently by show_help_echo (in keyboard.c) and display-local-help (in help-at-pt.el): in tooltips, substitute-command-keys is called on the help-echo string before passing it to show-help-function, but help-at-pt doesn't perform any substitutions before calling the function.
>
> To reproduce, (insert (propertize "test" 'help-echo "\\[forward-char]")), then press C-h . (which displays \[forward-char]) or hover over the inserted text with your mouse (which displays C-f).

I've fixed this on master in commit f3b85cd0cb.

I've also posted a followup bug here:

    https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=43070

I'm therefore closing this bug report.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas

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